Burial Urn with Male Effigy Figure

• Artist: Moskito style (Culture)
• Medium: Ceramic, pigment, slip
• Geographical Location: Lower Magdalena River Region, Colombia
• Dates: 1000-1500 C.E.
• Dimensions: A: 15 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (39 x 18.7 cm) B: 17 3/16 x 7 1/2 in. (43.7 x 19.1 cm)
• Collection: Arts of the Americas
• Museum Location: Brooklyn Museum, BMA, 5Q12-LUCE, Unit 28, Shelf A
• Accession Number: 49.191.2a-b
• Image: 49.191.2a-b_acetate_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 0,

Catalogue Description:
Nude male figure with left hand resting on left knee (the right hand is missing) seated on top of the half-domed lid of a cylindrical funerary urn. The figure is wearing ear ornaments. Cylindrical burial urns with rounded bases and an effigy figurethe bones of a secondary burial were found in a mound-covered stone tomb in an ancient cemetery near Ocuña, in the Magdalena Valley of Colombia.